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All of this is true, but with processing power and disk space increasing, you could envision a world where a phone simply has a copy of a desktop OS that it cou
by jdminhbg 7y ago
All of this is true, but with processing power and disk space increasing, you could envision a world where a phone simply has a copy of a desktop OS that it could boot into for docking, like a Mac with a Windows partition.
I’m sure you could do this with Linux now, it’s just such a niche use case nobody has mass produced it.
- dmitriid 7y agoExactly: it's such a niche thing, no one is mass-producing it. Because you would still have a problem. Let's say, you started editing a document on your phone. You then put it in a dock. Now what? The separate desktop OS starts, and?...
- coldtea 7y ago>Let's say, you started editing a document on your phone. You then put it in a dock. Now what? The separate desktop OS starts, and?... And you edit the document in a desktop UI now. Apple already has this feature (moving data and open files and apps and such from mobile to desktop transparently), called Continuity.
- dmitriid 7y agoYes. And it's different apps (one on desktop, on on mobile), and both apps have to support Continuity. So a phone in dock would have to run two OSes in parallel, and the apps in both OSes would have to run and support continuity-like hand-off.